I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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